you were scared to death? Then afterward thought "I must have been out of my mind".
I know firemen do it every day, I've seen them at work on the Calif. freeways many times.
2007-09-05 04:58:58 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
yes and as a rule heroic and stupid go hand in hand you just react without considering fear or anything until afterward that is when you have a moment of clarity and get weak in the knees heroism is seldom premeditated
2007-09-05 05:21:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I dont know about "heroically" but I do know that there may be times when you have to act, even though you would rather dissolve into a screaming puddle because there is no one else to step up to the plate and do what has to be done.
This happened to me when my daughter started seizing when she was about 8 months old. It was just me and one paramedic in the back of the ambulance and I was giving her oxygen and monitoring her for him and staying SO cool and in control - and he said "wow you are amazing, I would generally be treating most mothers by now as well as their babies".
I said "just wait until we get to ER and someone else can take over"
I stepped out of the ambulance and my legs caved in, hit the ground and had to be carried into ER by the other paramedic.
Because I could finally let go of that "control" I needed to save my babies life and just be her mother instead.
Sometimes we can find strength we dont know we have when its needed to save those we love.
Another time we were side swiped by a big truck that sent my car off the road and heading for a power pole, which would have gone through the passenger side, again my daughter was with me.
I didnt even think, I knew she was NOT having that power pole go through her side of the car and I knew if I steered back onto the road I was going to get hit again on my side by the same truck.
Wasnt even a choice, no decision had to be made, it was a given - the second hit took the drivers side right off my car.
When they have kids parents become heros, without even thinking about it.
2007-09-05 12:33:35 · answer #2 · answered by isotope2007 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes. And the post-action reaction you described is not that unuusual. Someone did interviews with living Medal of Honor recipients some years ago and found that few, if any, could even remember the combat actions they took which resulted in award of the medal. It's called having a "dissociated reaction", where you blank out, do the act, then can't remember anything about it.
2007-09-05 13:47:36 · answer #3 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes this past week some friends and i floated the Brazos River. Beautiful day when all of the sudden a lighting storm hit. We got out on the river bank and the same time the hail started... i pulled everyone up shore to find a hiding spot - told them to cover their heads with thier hands - ran back to the river bank and pulled some of the tube from the water and brought them back up to my friends to take cover under. GO me
2007-09-05 14:27:23 · answer #4 · answered by Kalli 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was leaving a drugstore once, a man came running by and grabbed a ladies purse and knocked her down, I jumped on the guys back and grabbed her purse. I was 45 then, weighed 120 lbs, never had been in a physical fight before. I peobably would not do it again, he just ticked me off!!!
2007-09-05 14:35:20 · answer #5 · answered by slk29406 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-09-05 12:03:33 · answer #6 · answered by Jack P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with all the other answers we react to the situation and afterwards with shaking knees you are amazed at your strength.
2007-09-05 13:00:35 · answer #7 · answered by Southern Comfort 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋